Sentences with phrase «seat in the legislature»

Get more seats in the legislature, get more governors elected, get more judges on the bench — the path to electoral power in a democracy is pretty straightforward.

It's possible that as many as 10 of the 13 contested seats in the legislature could go either way.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for a special election to fill vacant seats in the legislature in April.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

There was also one Independent MLA, and two vacant seats in the legislature.

Kenney says he will not run for seat in legislature in near future, will focus on working on plan to merge with Wildrose

So, if you want to earn media for the local candidates who helped us win seats in the legislature and the Senate, in places like Hornell or Oswego or Watertown, you put Ed Cox (and, preferably, Patricia Nixon Cox) on a bus and you drive them around to venues and put them on local radio and TV.

For Lancman, Avella and Meng, running for Ackerman's seat would mean giving up their safe seats in the legislature.

In another move to fill seats in the legislature, two special elections will be held next month for spots in the House of Representatives.

But even so, PAN («National Action Party») gets at most 14 percent of regional votes, and its token seats in the legislature serve more to prove the ruling party operates a democracy.

Since 1900, the party in the White House loses seats in the legislature in every midterm except for 1934 and 2002.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

The UK is the only democratic country in the world to give seats in its legislature to religious representatives as of right.

It got worse when Briggs tried to circle back on his old seat in the legislature.

New York voters have a primary election on September 13 for every State Assembly and State Senate seat in the legislature.

Mr Lucas MP went on to suggest that in effect placing a gender - ban on a number of seats in the legislature may be a breach of the European convention on human rights.

Carter, who gave up a safe seat in the legislature to challenge Richard Blumenthal for the U.S. Senate in 2016, also ruled out a run on Wednesday.

Republicans had hoped to gain one more seat in the legislature but incumbent Democrat Tom Loughran was able to hold off a strong challenge in the 5th District.

The Progressive Conservative Party won all three, increasing their seats in the legislature from 44 to 47.

The Parti Québécois came in second, winning 45 seats in the legislature, a drop of 31 seats from the 1998 general election.

The upstart Action démocratique du Québec beat its 1998 seat totals, winning 4 seats in the legislature (in 1998, the Party only won one seat).

Dorward's email also said that if Kenney loses the party leadership vote — set for March 18 — he will still run for a seat in the legislature under the PC banner.

They also have seats in legislatures, state assemblies and Parliament so as to allow them greater participation in the country's governance.

But in 1995 the party earned only 3,5 % votes which was insufficient to get any seats in the legislature and later was disbanded.

The party currently holds 9 of 57 seats in the legislature and their presidential candidate achieved a full 20 % of the popular vote in the 2010 presidential elections.

«If I were them, I wouldn't feel very good because they spent about $ 150,000 on two weeks» worth of races and they lost three seats in the legislature and could lose a fourth with Tim Hogues,» Zellner said.

Potentially, a current member of the legislature would have time to petition their way onto the ballot for the primary in June and, if unsuccessful, could stil have time to get on the ballot and run for re-election to their seat in the legislature, which is currently scheduled to have its primaries in September.

2014 is an election year for New York Governor Cuomo as well as all of the 213 seats in the legislature.

The governor had also wanted a voluntary public campaign financing system for statewide races, including the governor and all 263 seats in the legislature, but the deal limits the program to the state comptroller's race.

Stirring the stew, former assistant county planner and Democrat Jennifer Schwartz Berky announced for Provenzano's seat in the legislature.

2014 is an election year for Governor Cuomo as well as all of the 213 seats in the legislature.

Big Mack just missed winning a seat in the legislature last fall.

Toward that end, he gave up his seat in the legislature only to be denied the Democratic nomination for supervisor, which went to Al Perry.

At the time Rubio took his seat in the legislature in Tallahassee in January 2000, voters in Florida had recently approved a constitutional amendment on term limits.